I'm curious, what's the recourse here when this happens? Does Google make it right somehow when their own software bricks their own devices?
Or is just "Oops, our bad. Just buy a new one, best of luck!!"?
Does reflashing a ROM fix it? (aside from some data loss, of course)
I thought this sounded familiar and sure enough, second paragraph:
The Pixel 6 series has a history of running into issues after Android updates. Last year, the Android 14 update locked some users out of their storage, and earlier this year, factory resets left many Pixel 6 devices unresponsive.
Disappointing, you'd think this wouldn't happen with Google controlling both hardware and software
Hope my pixel 7 doesn't get effed.
Absolutely no issues with the GrapheneOS Android 15 releases
Upgraded to Android 15 with no issues on my 6a, but stuff like this is concerning.
Just updated this morning, shit. Working okay so far, though.
Too late for me. It's been fine so far, but I'm also not really using anything new.
How does this even happen?
They want you to buy a new phone. My 5a screen died just after 2 years. They had extended the warranty by a year because of screens going bad. If I would have known that I would have tried to get it replaced before the two years was up.
Lack of QA.
Note Google fired more than 12,000 people in the last two years.
Is that why we haven't gotten any new messaging apps lately?
We have Meet, Voice, and Messages.
Welcome to Google Messages Meet Voice. All the messaging apps combined in to one!
"Customers do the QA for us now."
That's been Microsoft's slogan for decades
I wonder if the is just happening on the 6 or the 6xl is also affected. Either way I'll not be exploring the private spaces for a while.
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